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Jeffrey S. Bishop
Jeffrey S. Bishop is Director of Orchestras and Division Coordinator of Fine Arts at Shawnee Mission Northwest High School, Shawnee Mission, Kansas. Under his direction, the strings enrollment at SMNW has grown from fourteen players in one orchestra to 120 players in three orchestras. In addition to the string orchestras, he also conducts the Northwest Symphony Orchestra. Orchestras under his direction have appeared at the Kansas Music Educators Association In-Service Workshop and the American String Teachers Association National Orchestra Festival. He is also the Music Director/Conductor of the Youth Symphony of Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra.

A published composer and writer, Jeffrey is in demand as a clinician throughout the United States. He has appeared as a clinician at the Midwest International Band and Orchestra Clinic and at the ASTA National Convention. He has guest-conducted all-state and regional orchestras in Kansas, Illinois, Missouri, Texas, Oregon, and Minnesota. His articles have appeared in the books Teaching Music Through Performance in Orchestra (Volumes 1 & 2) and The String Teacher's Cookbook and in the magazines The Instrumentalist and Orchestra News.

Jeffrey won the 1997 National School Orchestra Association Composition Contest with his Symphony for Strings No. 1. Since then he has had over three dozen pieces published by the Neil A. Kjos Music Company, Wingert-Jones Publications, and C. Alan Publications. He continues to receive commissions from college, high school, junior high, regional, and state ensembles across the country.

Jeffrey earned his Bachelor of Music Education degree from Northwest Missouri State University. He then went on to complete his Master of Music in conducting at the Wichita State University School of Music. While at WSU, he studied composition with Walter A. Mays.

Jeffrey currently resides in Prairie Village, Kansas with his wife Amy Fear-Bishop, also a graduate of Wichita State University. Ms. Fear-Bishop is Director of Orchestras at Blue Valley High School in Stilwell, Kansas. They both are members of GP VeloTek, a local bicycle racing team, and enjoy spending as much time together on their bikes as possible.